79 360 cam selection

art25 said
Hi guys, i couldnt resist a spare 360 for $150, downside is its a low compression slug.

Good news is its ony got 50,000 on it. i wanna see what the best it will do at the track without major modifications. I'm gonna do a home porting and gasket matching job on the heads, a set of headers and a seven fifty holley on an air gap manifold. probably mill the heads down a bit to. Basically a junkyard race motor. I was thinking on using a high torque truck cam instead of a high hp cam to try to do it all on the bottom end. Any suggestions for a cam or ideas? Thanks

I'm going to assume, this is going to be a "On the cheap engine build" and will use mostly what ya got kind of stuff?

You could cam it high and then spend some on a converter, gear and suspension to get'er to go.

art25 said
i'm probably gonna go hydraulic just cause this is sort of an experiment on just what i can squeeze out of it in mostly stock form. Whats the specs on that one. also i found these heads. http://www.aeroheadracing.com/id6.html supposedly as good as the x heads. what do you think? standard volume intake ports or should i go with the the bigger ports?

I wold stay with a Hyd. cam just to keep it cheap and easy.

Bowl port the heads you have and gasket match the ports. Your done. Installing 2.02's may or may not help depending on the final configuration. For this target, I have zero details of the car or wallet depth.